Noah’s Ark find claim a hoax...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/30/noahs-ark-hoax-claim-doesnt-deter-believers/?test=latestnews
With todays technology, you would think they could snap a picture or 2, huh? Yeah, in other words, I’m not buying the crap they are selling.
I get confused: is it Noah’s Ark, the cure for cancer, or the way to make cheap solar energy cells they find more often?
“displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts. . . “
Does wood petrify in 6,000 years? I think it takes a LOT longer than that.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/latest_ark_finding_is_a_fake.php
What a bullshit article passing for “journalism”.......and too many of y’all are biting (and you damned well should know better).
This piece doesn’t say jack-squat to prove this is a “hoax”. All it does is trot out a bunch of “skeptics” (gee golly, what a shock).
Yet, you all join the chorus.
What in the hell are you all afraid of? Jeez Louise. The Bible says the Ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat. Where the hell else would you expect it to be found? Why the knee-jerk reaction and all the sarcasm on this thread?
Just pisses me off. Closed minds always do that to me.
“Ararat is great prize for mountain collectors”
huh?
I would very much like an Ararat first edition in my collection...it’d go quite well with my Rockies (Canadian and American), my Unaka from the Great Smokies, and my Mt Dora from Florida...next on my list though, is an Ande...
So, Christians need to be discerning and stop falling for hoaxes... :-) This article was from another "episode" of false claims, too..., back in 2002.
19 April 2002
It is with great sadness that, from time to time, we need to make our supporters aware of disreputable claims ‘doing the rounds’ in Christian circles. Recently the dubious claims of Ron Wyatt and Jonathan Gray surfaced once again in Australia.
At great expense (and no doubt funded by the donations of sincere people), an eight-page newspaper insert recently appeared in the major newspapers in Australia — the Gold Coast Mail and the Melbourne Herald Sun.
Between them Gray and Wyatt (the latter now deceased) have claimed to have discovered Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ark of the Covenant, and the grain pits of Joseph. Other sensational claims include the discovery of Christ’s actual blood cells and the Ten Commandments on stone tablets—held together by gold chains no less.
We would be excited, along with all Christians, if these claims were true. Unfortunately, when asked to produce the artifacts, the discovers give only excuses. Checks on some of their claims have produced a trail of falsehood after falsehood. (See ‘Has the Ark of the Covenant been found?’)
An old article in Creation magazine (September-November 1992), ‘Could this be Noah’s Ark’, laid to rest the Wyatt rumors about discovery of Noah’s Ark.
The main claims at a glance
Why do we mention these articles on our Web site again? Gray’s advertising insert Discovery Times has appeared in major secular newspapers in Australia and may appear in other newspapers, increasing the likelihood that Christians will be asked questions about these claims.
Being tarred with the same brush
A lack of integrity causes great damage to the Christian cause, especially when people are ‘immunized’ against the Gospel upon discovery that such claims are false.
Believers need to be wary of rumors and claims without evidence. There are many Bible-believing scientists and archeologists who would love to help verify finds of this nature, if they were genuine. We are commanded to ‘prove all things’ (1 Thessalonians 5:21).